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1941008465Mexico: Publicaciones Panamericans 1941. 2 preliminary leaves 7-200 pages 3 leaves text in Spanish. Very Good creases at top corners and bottom edge in margins. A SCARCE Wallace publication. . First Mexican Edition . Printed Wrappers. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Publicaciones Panamericans Paperback books
19928575Honesdale: Boyds Mill Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1992. Hardcover. 1878093908 . Photographs by the author. First printing. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . Boyds Mill Press hardcover books
1937203Baltimore: The Maya Society 1937. Second Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Friar Diego De Landa. A good edition HAND D83 with solid sturdy binding and cover. Original blue cloth boards with gilt stamping and Maya Society crest in gilt. The blue cloth is showing heavy spotting on the spine and front cover and the top front corner is bumped. Pages toned top edge darkened. Former owner's bookplate. From the private library of Larry Southwick. Laid in with a staplebound pamphlet for "Publications in the Field of Archaeology Anthropology etc. issued by the Carnegie Institute of Washington. May 1937." Heavily illustrated includes maps and related documents. 142 pp. Octavo 6 x 10 inches tall. An important primary source scarce in this edition "Modern scholars regard Landa with a mixture of frustration and admiration. At the same time he wrote his comprehensive work on Mayan culture his orders to destroy all icons and hieroglyphics obliterated the Mayan language . helping to undermine and destroy the civilization he so vividly described. Yet his book which was not printed until 1864 provided a phonetic alphabet that made it possible to decipher about one-third of the Mayan hieroglyphs and many of the remainder have since been deciphered." - Britannica The Maya Society hardcover books
1961006021No Place: The Ohio Historical Quarterly 1961. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front cover - "Regards Bob". Near fine small corner creases top corners. Paginated 332-342 a reprint of a scholarly article. . SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Reprint. Stapled Wrappers. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The Ohio Historical Quarterly Paperback books
199933295Gwinn: Avery Color Studios. Fine. 1999. Paperback. 0932212883 . Black and white photographs. Updated edition paperback. Fine in pictorial wraps. . Avery Color Studios paperback books
1918007367No Place: United States Marines 1918. World War I U.S. Marine Corps recruitment poster showing marines firing artillery from the deck of a ship. 18" w x 27 1/4" h mounted to canvas sized 20" w x 29 1/2" h. no date circa 1914-1918. Fine as issued. An excellent original poster well suited to and ready for framing. Will ship loosely rolled in sturdy mailing tube. . First Printing. Poster. Fine. 18" w x 27 1/4" h. United States Marines books
1918007366New York: Heywood Strasser & Voigt Litho. Co. 1918. World War I lithograph print by Joseph Pennell of a ship in naval yard surrounded by rigging and with biplanes in the sky poster size 21" w x 22" h mounted to mat board size 23" w x 22" h. Listed in Monthly catalog of United States goverment publications April 1918 p. 588 as issued by the U.S. Department of the Treasury Publicity Bureau.Worldcat. Near Fine 1" tear bottom left corner 1/2" tear bottom edge. Printed "Joseph Pennell Del " lower left signed in plate lower right "J. Pennell". One of the truly iconic posters of WWI in the collections of several museums. Ready for framing will be shipped flat as it is mounted to mat board. . First Printing. Poster. Near Fine. 21" w x 22" h. Heywood Strasser & Voigt Litho. Co. books
19804854Cambridge: MIT Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1980. Hardcover. 0262021471 . Translated from the Italian by Mirella and Riccardo Giacconi. Foreword by Stillman Drake. First edition. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . MIT Press hardcover books
199934435New Haven: Yale University Press. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1999. Hardcover. 0300076444 . First printing. Book-plate on front paste-down else fine in a fine dust jacket. . Yale University Press hardcover books
1923001659New York: Workers Education Bureau of America 1923. Fine. 16 page stapled in pictorial wrappers. Articles by A.J. Muste George S. Lackland Hilda Smith and Algernon Lee. Scarce. First Edition. Pamphlet. Fine in Wraps as Issued/No Jacket As Issued. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Workers Education Bureau of America Paperback books
1988131391Chapel Hill North Carolina: Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture by the University of North Carolina Press 1988. Softcover. VG former owner's name on false title page otherwise clean unmarked sound. Tan illustrated wraps 297 pp. Several tables and maps. Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture by the University of North Carolina Press unknown books
199532456NY: Cambridge University Press. Fine. 1995. Paperback. 0521386136 . A later paperback printing. Fine in illustrated wraps. . Cambridge University Press paperback books
1916892London: Duckworth & Co 1916. Hardcover. Very good. Second impression. xvi 240 pp illustrations 16 publisher's catalogue. Some light general wear to boards short gift inscription Christmas 1919 on front free endpaper; else clean and sound. No dust jacket. Compiled from letters written by the author from France Greece Serbia and England. Duckworth & Co hardcover books
19202770London: Cassell and Company Ltd 1920. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. xii 278 pp illustrations from photographs frontis portrait of the author index. Library stamp on top edge no other library markings; text clean binding sound. No dust jacket. Signature of historical novelist Alfred Duggan on front endpaper. From the Foreword: "Originally written for the private use of my sons in case I did not return this narrative of events connected with the expedition to Siberia must of necessity lack many of the necessary elements which go to make a history. I wrote of things as they occurred and recorded the reasons and motives which prompted the participants." Cassell and Company, Ltd hardcover books
19751822College Station TX: Texas A&M University Press 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. xxix 202 pp with illustrations index. Light damage to front free endpaper name written on front pastedown lightly bumped bottom corners; else clean and sound. Dust jacket shows very light shelf wear with a few spots of nibbling at the folds. An eyewitness account of the Texas Revolution written by an intelligent and perceptive officer on Santa Anna's staff. Texas A&M University Press hardcover books
190243922London and New York: John Lane The Bodley Head 1902. 1st Edition. Red cloth with decorative pattern of gilt bees stamped to front board gilt decoration and lettering to spine t.e.g. Mild extremity wear; spine lightly sunned; faint spotting to rear board; small San Francisco bookseller label to rear pastedown. Very occasional minor soil to margins. Else clean binding sound. VG. vi 2 257 1 6 ads pp. B/w frontispiece of John Stokoe plus four facsimiles of letters. 7-3/4" x 5" <br/><br/> John Lane, The Bodley Head hardcover books
199421242NY: HarperCollins Pandora. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1994. Hardcover. 006250049X . Book club edition. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . HarperCollins (Pandora) hardcover books
1991TB10530Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1991. First Edition. First printing Fine in 1/4 cloth and paper covered boards. In a near fine dust jacket with faint creasing at the upper edge of the front panel. A description of life and nature in a remote valley in Montana as experienced by the author. Houghton Mifflin hardcover books
1986006437Portsmouth New Hampshire: Peter E. Randall Publisher 1986. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on front end page. "The story of the life and times of the inventor of our game of tennis.". SIGNED BY AUTHOR. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Peter E. Randall, Publisher Hardcover books
19252454Paris 1925. Wraps. Mauve faux suede marled wraps. Very good. 83 pages. 20 x 14.5 cm. Second book in a series published by the great wine house of Nicolas. This edition explores the Bordeaux region - illustrated in color throughout by Pierre Lissac. Color illustrated fold-out map of region and a large folding chart of quantities produced in this areas dating 1876 through 1923. Text in French. Light foxing to interior. <br/><br/> paperback books
1925535681925. WINCHESTER History of. WINCHESTER'S WAR RECORDS. Civil - Spanish-American - World. Winchester Massachusetts: Andover Press 1925. 8vo. blue cloth stamped in blind and gilt. Slight wear to spine and corners with light foxing to text edges. A very good copy. unknown books
19692221968<p>Enlarged edition. 4to. 50 b/w illustrations 41 figures. Dust jacket clipped designed by Miriam. Very good. 312 pages. No signatures or bookplates.</p><p>Includes three additional articles.</p> Da Capo Press hardcover books
19182256New York: The Truthseeker Co 1918. Softcover. Good. Revised and enlarged edition. 32 pp in original stapled wrappers. Dampstaining and chipping to wrappers text clean. Gauvin 1881-1978 was a notable author and speaker in the Freethought movement. Here he details the many perfidies of Germany and her allies and asserts that "we must do all in our power to preserve our liberties by keeping a conquering military despotism away from our shores. And the things which we cherish for ourselves we must help France and England to uphold that all of us may do our duty to humanity as guardians of civilization." The Truthseeker Co paperback books
1975004191Nashville Tennessee: Broadman Press 1975. SIGNED BY AUTHOR and former President Jimmy Carter on the title page "Jimmy Carter" and SCARCE THUS. His 1st book. Near Fine top edge faint soiling in a Near Fine dustjacket small chips at head of spine and flap folds Christian Board of Publication price sticker rear panel. This is not one of the Limited Editions with a facsimile signature but rather a regular trade edition copy that he has signed "Jimmy Carter" not the more commonly seen "J. Carter". . SIGNED BY AUTHOR. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. Broadman Press Hardcover books
1940007448New York: Wilfred Funk Inc. 1940. First Edition First Printing of John F. Kennedy's first book. Near Fine slight browning to end pages topstain a bit lightened at spine end in a Very Good dust jacket front flap bottom corner clipped yet still showing Price $ with part of the 2 present see scan light edgewear rear wrappers soiled. Uncommon in the first edition first printing. . First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Wilfred Funk, Inc. Hardcover books
